Press Release: 09 Febrero 2022 12:00hrs EST
The future of Telehealth
Online appointments in the U.S. grew +140% in 2020, according to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention),
In Colombia, telehealth appointments incremented +7,000%, according to FIFARMA (Federación Latinoamericana de la Industria Farmacéutica),
In Peru, more than 14 million virtual appointments were generated in 2020, according to the Ministry of Health,
In Brazil, thanks to said technology, not only have more than 75.000 lives been saved, but also, more than 6,5 million unnecessary emergency room trips have been avoided. (E-Health Reporter Latin America. 13 JUL 2021).
Problems: Patient impersonation and fraud.
However, the main problem faced by clinics and public and private establishments is impersonation of patients and fraud around consultation. In EE.UU. the justice department justicia announced on Friday that they are charging 138 people for their involvement in telemedicine schemes and other health care fraud across the country, which may have caused losses estimated in more than$1.4 billion of dollars.
The solution we, www.biometricmax.com, present, consists in a biometric registry (facial recognition) for patients and doctors combined with a blockchain-linked certificate; thus eliminating patient impersonation and linking diagnostics, recipes and medical notes to an inviolable? And unfalsifiable certificate through blockchain. This on-demand service can be connected with almost all available telemedicine systems, facilitating its implementation and amplifying the benefits by providing greater security as well as traceability of the consultation data, necessary for insurance companies and medical establishments anywhere in the world.
The Solution: Online medical appointments, using biometric recognition and blockchain.
According to EMARKETER in its January 2022 study “US Telehealth Trends 2022”, 83% of patients aged 25-40 plan to keep using Telehealth platforms in 2022 (in comparison to 2021); in patients ages 18-24, the percentage is 73%, 41-56 is 68% and even 51% of patients aged 57-75.
BIOMETRICMAX, is a platform developed between QONTEO (a company specializing in the development of advanced analytics applications using artificial intelligence and video analytics) and BLOCKTAC (a European company specializing in blockchain certificates), during this first quarter of the year the platform will focus on 25 US cities. USA and Latin America.
Jean Paul Che Piu Palao, CEO of QONTEO, considers “we are committed to accelerating the future, working so that those aspects that are estimated in years, happen in months, even weeks! In Telemedicine, this implies concrete benefits for clients and users, in terms of facilitating processes and democratizing access to technology for all”.
Francisco Guillen, CEO of BLOCKTAC, Doctor of Medicine (Univ. Navarra), Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Master in Business Administration (IESE, Spain). Former Rector, with more than 30 years of international experience in the start-up and management of healthcare and university institutions.
He believes that "including Blockchain certificates in Telemedicine will help protect and authenticate physical or digital assets, and put an end to counterfeiting and data manipulation."
How it works?
Speeding up the future of Telemedicine
Jean Paul Che Piu Palao, CEO de QONTEO, Serial Entrepreneur, he has received recognition from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), MasterCard among others. He is the author of the book on Internet Advertising (2000), founder of companies such as ArtFood.tv, Blunblun and Wesoda He is part of the board of directors of the ASDFMAG Investment Fund.
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Francisco Guillen, CEO of BLOCKTAC, Doctor of Medicine (Univ. Navarra), Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Master in Business Administration (IESE, Spain). Former Rector, with more than 30 years of international experience in the start-up and management of healthcare and university institutions.
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